I’m deeply interested in history. Often grossly mischaracterized as just a series of facts and recorded events, history is better viewed as a narrative, not unlike a piece of theatre. How that narrative is told and understood is extremely important to everyone, and shapes how people view and interact with the world.

US history is especially interesting to me, and this particular podcast is an excellent survey of the subject, from the civil war to the early 2000s. Professor Jennifer Burns is a professor of US history, with a particular interest in Conservative history (she’s the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right). This lecture series, given at UC Berkeley in 2006, is very good and well worth a listen even if you are a reader in the subject.

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Technical Tools of the Trade

We'll train you for whatever lies ahead!

Technical Tools of the Trade is a program to provide low-cost, accessible, yet high-quality instruction in technical theater and design. This is made possible by Legacy funding so that we are not compromising on the needed costs to get the proper equipment and hire the top-notch working professionals that we do.

We provide workshops for children and youth, all the way to seasoned experts looking for continuing education. We also have workshops for young professionals looking to improve their marketability and for networking opportunities in a business that is typically hard to break in to.